Starting immediately, I want a new law passed that states children of politicians who are old enough to join the armed forces will do so. We will start with the children of US Senators and Reps and policy makers within the executive branch and who are especially pro-war.

Below is a recent post from Dailykos.com. It deals with politicians (GOP of course) whining that young people are not signing up because of the negative media coverage of the war in Iraq. Imagine that - guess it doesn't have a thing to do with bombings and the killing of our soliders. Hm...didn't Bush say something about major battles in Iraq were over more than a year ago?

If these miserable bastards had some family member in jeaopardy they'd think twice about this shit.

(When I was in the Middle East the first time around, a wealthy uncle - get this - he makes his money in the oil business - bloviated to my own father something along the lines of, "We're finally going to kick some Iraqi ass"....my pop's reply was, "Hey, it's not your fucking son who is over there.")

GOP Senators cast blame for recruitment woes by kos Thu Jun 30th, 2005 at 18:42:14 PDT

Interesting that on a day the Pentagon claimed victory for its June recruitment numbers (even though they came far short of their original goals), Republican senators are busy casting blame for the recruitment woes.

Several Senate Republicans denounced other lawmakers and the news media on Thursday for unfavorable depictions of the Iraq war and the Pentagon urged members of Congress to talk up military service to help ease a recruiting shortfall.

Families are discouraging young men and women from enlisting "because of all the negative media that's out there," Sen. James Inhofe (news, bio, voting record), an Oklahoma Republican, said at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Inhofe also said that other senators' criticism of the war contributed to the propaganda of U.S. enemies. He did not name the senators [...]

"With the deluge of negative news that we get daily, it's just amazing to me that anybody would want to sign up," said Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican.

Roberts is whining that kids aren't enlisting? Maybe he should set an example. His family looks to be of military age:

Inhofe? Lots of military age-looking people there as well:

Bush talked about what an honorable profession the military can be.

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

So we'll be seeing these two in uniform sometime soon?

Leaders lead by example. I doubt either of these two senators or the president would be willing to send their children and/or grandchildren to Iraq. Yet they expect others to take a bullet. They expect other families to make the sacrifice they themselves would not.

It's much easier to whine that the press reports the truth from Iraq -- that people are getting killed, that shit is getting blown up, and that the administration has no plan for victory.